The concept of agricultural and environmental sustainability refers to minimizing the
degradation of natural resources while increasing crop productions; assessment of inflow …

Agriculture uses a lot of fuel, fertilizers, pesticides and other substances, while emitting large
amounts of GHGs. It is important to optimize these inputs and outputs. One such way is by …

An efficient assessment of energy consumption, energy flow, and energy use efficiency in
crop (maize) production is inevitable to accomplish the intensive demand for energy. Data …

Determining the impacts of extrusion conditions on extrudate characteristics of whole beans
flours is critical to find the suitable types of beans to use for making direct expanded …

The aim of this study was to use the data envelopment analysis for determining the energy
efficiency and find the optimum energy consumption in dairy farms of Qazvin city of Iran. In …

Faba beans are an important crops in the agricultural crop rotations and are valuable as
medicine, food and feed. Faba beans improve the soil, reduces the utilization of chemical …

Increasing the use of energy inputs in agricultural section has been led to numerous
environmental concerns such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, high consumption of …

Due to resource limitations and challenges caused by accelerating climate change, meeting
the world's growing nutritional needs in a more sustainable way has become an essential …

Soybean (Glycine max L.) is grown in crop** systems of Gorgan (northeast of Iran) as an
oil crop. Energy flow and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of soybean production were …

This study evaluates energy efficiency of pastoral (PDFs) and barn (BDFs) dairy farming
systems in New Zealand through application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach …